The News

Will looked up in surprise and alarm as the giant double doors boomed open. The guards rushed forward, and Roh smoothly disarmed them in a second. As they recognized her, they saluted, and she dropped their weapons on the floor. She turned around and continued striding towards her brother, who was bent over a huge 3D map. He looked up at his sister. Her long auburn hair was braided behind her and it had twigs and leaves in it. As Will took a closer look at her, he noticed the blood stain splattered across the front of her left leg and the smudges of dirt and blood on her face. "What happened?" he asked her.
She shrugged. "We won." she tilted her head to the side, inviting him to challenge her.
"We?" Will caught onto the pronoun quickly.
"I wanted to go for a ride, and I knew you would kill me if I went alone, so I brought Ben and Ryan. We ran into a. . .problem." She finished.
"You wanna elaborate? Cause I'll call the guys in here and they'll tell me." he was starting to get annoyed with the lack of information in her responses.
"Only because they have to." she muttered. "We were riding along, " she continued, louder "and I heard a noise ahead, so we stopped. Ryan saw it first. It was a huge sickly yellow snake with a crown of livid blue feathers. It attacked. At some point, it had Ben in it's coils, and was squeezing the crap out of him, so I jumped off Rocky onto the back of it's neck. I killed it by shoving this in it's throat." She pulled a silver dagger out of her boot. It was covered, even the hilt in sticky black blood. "We got lucky. We're three of the best fighters in the kingdom and we got lucky. This was a serious beast." she shook her head, her bright green eyes steady.
"Where's Ben?" Will asked after a long pause where he studied the bloody knife.
"Down with Kadoc. Just in case a rib was broken or some whatnot like that. He wouldn't tell me even if he thought he had broken a rib." Roh smiled slightly at her cousin's pride.
"And Ryan?" he inquired, his blue eyes locked with hers.
"With Ben. It's some weird guy thing." She rolled her eyes.
"And you? None of that blood is yours, is it?" Will looked at his sister with concern.
Roh scoffed. "When was the last time anyone got a hit on me?" she demanded. Will smiled slightly and took a moment to evaluate the situation.
"First, we're going to see Ben. Then you're going to change out of those bloody clothes and we're going to address the council." he said firmly.
"You know, since technically you're the king, I shouldn't have to go, right?" she asked
"Yes." he acknowledged as she opened her mouth. "But I make you come anyway." He smiled as she harrumphed her way out the door towards the westernmost tower before following quickly after her.